My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The era of mass education and the standardization of the English language left such expressions as marks of uneducated people in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.” — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver Copy Share Image
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the… — Eddy Peters Copy Share Image
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with… — Jack Ramsay Copy Share Image
“One reason Bible translation is a difficult task is that, in many cases, there is no direct one-to-one parallel between words in… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
I make the case in the book that Standard English, that language we all aspire to live and move and have our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“The need for Nigerian clerks and other subordinates to help man the colonial administration required creating a new class of African people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Perfect' - the most misattributed word in English language A 'perfect' thing can never be improved - at least by what the… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“item 5. It is also beyond the scope of the Standards to define the full range of supports appropriate for English language… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“When she’s in a courtroom, Wendy Patrick, a deputy district attorney for San Diego, uses some of the roughest words in the… — Mark A. Kellner Copy Share Image
It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career… — Truong Tran Copy Share Image
“Lady Emily’s maid had come to her many years ago as Amélie Conque, but the assimilative genius of the English language, Mr… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English… — P J Wingate Copy Share Image
“The most common double-letter pairing in the English language being the double L, of course, challenged only by the double T.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“History is so important. It has been said that the three most important words in the English language are “remember, remember, remember.” — Carl Richards Copy Share Image
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It’s a question of using the English language in a way that will achieve the greatest clarity and strength.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The English language has many truly spectacular words, but every once in a while you find someone and the only words you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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